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Project Name: Period Piece

Asking For: $20,000 on Kickstarter

Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $15,795

Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 27 hours. Go fast!

Description: A web series that deftly combines comedy, history, and feminism is looking to pick up the funding it needs for a second season. Period Piece, created by Liliana Tandon, needs one final push on Kickstarter if it is to reach its goal.

The name Period Piece is a double-entendre that refers both to the show's historical focus and its discussion of menstruation. Episodes take place during individual historical moments in time and use punchy back-and-forth dialogues to explain the prevailing attitudes toward periods across many cultures and eras. The show's first season covered several thousand years, and season two is aiming for an equally huge breadth. Its settings will range from antiquity to the modern day, with a special Donald Trump episode on the horizon.

Check out a pair of featurettes for “Act of Valor” director Scott Waugh’s latest, the based-on-a-videogame (but not really) movie “Need for Speed.” According to these new videos, everyone in the movie actually did their own stunts, including all their own driving. Yeah, probably not. Though the “Driving School” featurette with star Aaron Paul certainly shows him actually doing all of his own driving, so maybe he did…? Anyhoo. Check out the featurettes, fans of movie featurettes. Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross country race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins. Starring Aaron Paul, Michael Keaton, Imogen Poots, Dominic Cooper, Dakota Johnson, Rami Malek, Ramon Rodriguez, Kid Cudi, E. Roger, Mitchell, Han Soto, and Harrison Gilbertson. Go fast this March 14, 2014.

With how well the last two Fast And Furious films have done in theaters (combined they have grossed $446 million domestically and over $1.3 billion worldwide) it's not surprising that several studios are trying to emulate that success with their own movies involving fast moving vehicles. Besides the Need For Speed video game adaptation with Aaron Paul, Legendary is looking into making a Hot Wheels movie and Sony recently acquired Go Fast, which would be about high speed boats....

While at Comic Con, I got a chance to chat with Kick-Ass 2 writer/director Jeff Wadlow about his upcoming announced adaptation of Rob Liefeld‘s comic book series X-Force and the just announced action thriller ‘Go Fast‘ which he is making at Sony. Learn more details on these two projects, after the jump. My full interview with Wadlow (and [...]...

Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow is starting to experience a bit of a rise in fame thanks to his latest directorial gig. Previously, he had only helmed two films: Cry_Wolf and Never Back Down. Now, with Kick-Ass 2 under his belt, the director has been able to snag two high profile gigs. One is X-Force for Fox, which was announced last week. The second film was revealed today as Deadline reports that Wadlow will direct an action flick titled Go Fast for Sony Pictures.

Scripted by xXx screenwriter Rich Wilkes, the film will focus on “the ocean-bound struggle between DEA agents and drug smugglers and aims to do for high-velocity watercraft what the Fast and Furious franchise has done for fast cars.”

It sounds like an interesting idea and with the right people involved, I think the film could see the same success that the Fast and Furious franchise has seen in recent years.

Picture this: "The Fast and the Furious" ... but with boats!

That's the premise of "Go Fast," a thriller about DEA agents chasing drug smugglers on the high seas. According to Deadline, Sony is acquiring the action flick, to be piloted by "Kick-Ass 2"'s Jeff Wadlow (pictured above).

Wadlow is a hot, up-and-coming director who is writing and likely directing "X-Force," an "X-Men" spin-off. More info on "X-Force" is expected from Comic-Con this weekend.

No doubt Sony hopes "Go Fast" can do with boats what "Fast and Furious" did with cars -- rev up a booming, multi-picture franchise that consistently brings in big bucks at the box office.

We wonder if Vin Diesel can swim ...

[via Deadline]...

Sony Pictures has acquired the action thriller pitch "Go Fast" for Jeff Wadlow ("Kick Ass 2") to direct.

Rich Wilkes ("xXx") will pen the story which will deal with the fast boats used by DEA agents to thwart drug smugglers on the high seas.

Todd Garner is producing. Wadlow would likely do this after he finishes work on the X-Men spin-off "X-Force" at Fox.

Source: Deadline...

Sony Pictures wants Jeff Wadlow for Go Fast.

The studio is in the process of acquiring Rich Wilkes's action film script for the Kick-Ass 2 filmmaker to direct, reports Deadline.

The film will centre around DEA agents using speed boats to thwart drug smugglers.

It is being billed as Fast and Furious with water craft instead of cars.

Wadlow was recently revealed to be writing and potentially directing 20th Century Fox's X-Men: Days of Future Past sequel X-Force.

The writer-director will be attending San Diego Comic-Con International this week to promote his adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's Kick-Ass 2.

The film will be released on August 14 in the UK, and August 16 in the Us. Watch a trailer for Kick-Ass 2 below:...

Jeff Wadlow is a man in demand at the moment. A few scant days since word broke that the Kick-Ass 2 writer/director is developing an X-Force film for 20th Century Fox comes word that Sony is looking to secure his services for an action film called Go Fast.No, it’s not Jeff Goldblum sitting in the back of a jeep constantly telling the driver to increase speed – the script the studio has xXx man Rich Wilkes working on is actually based around the speedy boats used by DEA agents to tackle drug smugglers at sea. Think Fast & Furious, but with more water and less 27-mile runways.Wadlow may open up more about both potential projects this week as he’s set to arrive in San Diego with his Kick-Ass cast. Given that they’re both in an early stage of development, it’s anyone’s guess as to which would come first,...

In 1994, Jan de Bont.s action-on-crack thriller Speed usurped Die Hard as the inspiration for the .Movie Title in a situation. method of crafting film storylines. What was Speed 2: Cruise Control? Speed on a boat. What is Eugenio Mira.s upcoming thriller Grand Piano? Speed on a piano bench, or something. And though this is a recent example of the trend, I think the torch has officially been passed, as Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow.s next project is the action thriller Go Fast, according to Deadline, which essentially calls it Fast & Furious, but with boats. Amazing. Sony is acquiring the treatment specifically for Wadlow, with Broken Road.s Todd Garner producing. Go Fast - easily the most on-the-nose title since Shoot .Em Up - will be written by Rich Wilkes, who also connects to the F&F universe by having written the Vin Diesel film action flick XXX.

Exclusive: Sony Pictures is acquiring Go Fast, an action vehicle that will be written by Rich Wilkes for Kick-Ass 2 helmer Jeff Wadlow to direct. I’m told that the title refers to the fast boats that are used by DEA agents to thwart drug smugglers on the high seas. What The Fast And The Furious did with cars, the film intends to do for these lightning-fast water crafts. Broken Road’s Todd Garner is producing. This becomes the second big studio project for Wadlow, who is also writing to direct X-Force, another spinoff of Marvel’s X-Men franchise, which is being developed by 20th Century Fox. Wadlow directed his first studio film in Kick-Ass 2 after writing the sequel and getting the blessing to direct it from rights holder Matthew Vaughn, who helmed the original. Wadlow this week brings Kick-Ass 2 to San Diego, introducing the cast at Comic-Con.

Writer/director Jeff Wadlow's upcoming movie Kick-Ass 2 hasn't even hit theaters yet, but he's already lining up a number of other projects, including 20th Century Fox's planned X-Force movie. Now word comes from Deadline that Sony Pictures also wants to get into bed with the filmmaker, having picked up Rich Wilkes' action screenplay Go Fast for Wadlow to direct. Best known for writing Vin Diesel's 2002 action hit XXX , Wilkes' latest screenplay involves the super-fast water craft that DEA agents use to take down drug smugglers. The movie will be produced by Todd Garner of Broken Road, who brought the screenplay to Sony Pictures.

Catalina Denis cast in Paul Walker thriller Model and film actress Catalina Denis has been cast as the female lead opposite Paul Walker (Fast & Furious 6) and David Belle (Malavita) in Camille Delamarre’s Brick Mansions. The action thriller is EuropaCorp and Relativity Media’s English-language remake of the 2004 French-made action / thriller District B13. In Brick Mansions, Paul Walker incarnates an undercover cop out to defuse a bomb in possession of drug warlord RZA. Catalina Denis will play David Belle’s romantic interest. Luc Besson, who specializes in run-of-the-mill, Hollywood-style French-made action thrillers, is one of the film’s producers. Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken, From Paris with Love), and co-written by Luc Besson and Bibi Naceri, District B13 / Banlieue 13 stars David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, Dany Verissimo-Petit, and co-screenwriter Naceri. The film performed modestly at the French box office; according to Box Office Mojo, District B13 was no. 51 on France’s 2004 box-office chart,...

In the fall of last year we ventured into the mountains just outside of Big Bear, California, to the set of then-filming feature Axeman at Cutter’s Creek and while there chatted with many of the flick’s principal players.

Kicking things off in our set visit coverage is an interview with actress Elissa Dowling.

Written and directed by Joston Theney, Axeman at Cutter’s Creek stars Dowling (Black Dahlia), Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man), Brinke Stevens (Skeleton Key), Ray Trickitt (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) and Arielle Brachfeld (The Haunting of Whaley House). With the marketing tag "Get ready for a vacation to be dismembered," it revolves around nine vacationing twenty-somethings who are hunted by the titular axe-wielding local legend. The cast of Axeman is rounded out by Chantelle Albers, Jamie Bernadette, Erin Marie Hogan, Eliza Kiss, Dylan Hobbs, Stephen Eith, J. Scott, Carlos Javier Castillo, Paula Tracey Wilson,...

Today is the day. I’ve been working to finish this movie since 2006. There were moments in the six years since putting pen to page during which I couldn’t make this day out in my future. Not that I considered quitting, that isn’t my style, but I did at times feel like the journey of making this film would stretch into eternity. This is not unprecedented, check out Ellison’s second book or Wendell B. Harris’ second movie.

To avoid that fate I had to take an extreme measure and commit myself to working 12 hours a day 7 days a week until the movie was finished. This change was sparked from a conversation I had with the Orisha through a priestess. The Orisha had a simple message that I took to heart.

Go fast.

I accelerated my pace. I have yet to pump the brakes. I rolled into Park...

Go Fast is one of the few films that actually lives up to its title in every conceivable way. It’s about undercover narcotics cops in France, who literally get involved in something called a ‘Go-fast’. Since the people making the subtitles couldn’t pause the film to explain what precisely this ‘go-fast’ meant, and since the French characters are literally using the two English words ‘go’ and ‘fast’, I can only rely on my own interpretation of events. Though it’s not a particularly complex idea, as you might have guessed. Basically the crims are running drugs from Morocco through Spain and on into France, and they have found that the best method for avoiding apprehension is driving incredibly fast in speedboats and supercars. The titular ‘Go-fast’. Seems like that would draw more attention to the whole process.* But apparently not in Continental Europe. Our dashing lead is a...